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Cambridge Public Schools
The Cambridge Public Schools, in partnership with our families and community, will provide all students with rigorous, joyful, and culturally responsive learning as well as the social, emotional, and academic supports each student needs to achieve their goals and postsecondary success as engaged community members.

Project Description
This grant will support the Cambridge Public Schools’ Building Equity Bridges project, which will engage a wide field of community stakeholders in honest and authentic dialogue to identify the root causes of the persistent gaps in college and career readiness that are limiting the prospects of too many high school graduates.

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Cambridge Public Schools

Grant:

Understanding Root Causes of Inequities

Initiative:

Develop Effective Systems Designs

Date Grant Awarded:

12/29/2017

Location Served:

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge Public Schools
The Cambridge Public Schools, in partnership with Cambridge families and community, will provide all students with rigorous, joyful, and culturally responsive learning as well as the social, emotional, and academic supports each student needs to achieve their goals and postsecondary success as engaged community members.

Project Description
This grant will support the Cambridge Public Schools’ Building Equity Bridges project, which will engage a wide field of community stakeholders in honest and authentic dialogue to identify the root causes of the persistent gaps in college and career readiness that are limiting the prospects of too many high school graduates.

Buck Institute for Education
The Buck Institute for Education is a non-profit organization that creates, gathers, and shares high-quality project-based learning (PBL) instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.

Project Description
This grant will support the Buck Institute for Education to support professional development and research activities in Manchester School District over the course of the three-year research practice partnership “Scaling High Quality Project Based Learning for Deeper Learning Impact.”

Buck Institute for Education

Buck Institute for Education
The Buck Institute for Education is a non-profit organization that creates, gathers, and shares high-quality project-based learning (PBL) instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.

Project Description
This grant will support the Buck Institute for Education to support professional development and research activities in Manchester School District over the course of the three-year research practice partnership “Scaling High Quality Project Based Learning for Deeper Learning Impact.”

Somerville Public Schools
The Somerville Public Schools serve a diverse and dynamic population of more than 5,000 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Project Description
This grant will support the Somerville Public School district to – in partnership with the Education Development Center – develop a new robust teacher leadership program and create a distributed leadership ecosystem that puts student-centered learning and equity front and center.

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Somerville Public Schools

Grant:

Somerville Teacher Leadership for Student-Centered Learning

Initiative:

Build Educator Ownership, Leadership and Capacity

Date Grant Awarded:

12/29/2017

Location Served:

Somerville, MA

Somerville Public Schools
The Somerville Public Schools serve a diverse and dynamic population of more than 5,000 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Project Description
This grant will support the Somerville Public School district to – in partnership with the Education Development Center – develop a new robust teacher leadership program and create a distributed leadership ecosystem that puts student-centered learning and equity front and center.

Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University.

Project Description
This grant will support HMS MEDscience program, which aims to increase students' interest, achievement and career intentions in the healthcare fields by engaging them in hands-on, field-based experiences coupled with an intensive program of instruction.

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Harvard Medical School

Grant:

MEDScience

Initiative:

Presidents

Date Grant Awarded:

12/29/2017

Location Served:

Boston, MA

Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University.

Project Description
This grant will support HMS MEDscience program, which aims to increase students' interest, achievement and career intentions in the healthcare fields by engaging them in hands-on, field-based experiences coupled with an intensive program of instruction.

Manchester School District
Manchester Public Schools will engage all students in the highest quality 21st century education preschool through graduation. Through an active partnership with students, school personnel, families and community, the Manchester Public Schools will create safe, inclusive schools where equity is the norm and excellence is the goal. All students will be prepared to be lifelong learners and contributing members of society.

Project Description
This grant will support the Manchester School District to hire a neutral technical assistance provider to facilitate inclusive, participatory, and transparent district-community processes to identify and analyze barriers preventing learners from accessing educational opportunities and graduating from high school ready for college.

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Manchester School District

Grant:

Analyzing Barriers to Equitably Preparing All Students for College and Career

Initiative:

Develop Effective Systems Designs

Date Grant Awarded:

12/29/2017

Location Served:

Manchester, NH

Manchester School District
Manchester Public Schools will engage all students in the highest quality 21st century education preschool through graduation. Through an active partnership with students, school personnel, families and community, the Manchester Public Schools will create safe, inclusive schools where equity is the norm and excellence is the goal. All students will be prepared to be lifelong learners and contributing members of society.

Project Description
This grant will support the Manchester School District to hire a neutral technical assistance provider to facilitate inclusive, participatory, and transparent district-community processes to identify and analyze barriers preventing learners from accessing educational opportunities and graduating from high school ready for college.

Windham Public Schools
The Windham Public Schools provides all students equitable access to a high quality education and graduates students who are prepared to become productive members of society. The school district and community hold a commitment to support cultural and linguistic diversity, deep student engagement, and the pursuit of lifelong learning.

Project Description
This grant will support Windham High School in implementing a comprehensive and sustainable plan to develop, support and enhance teacher leadership. Designed to increase teacher efficacy and school-based instructional leadership to improve student achievement, this plan addresses curriculum, instructional delivery, assessment methods and school based professional learning and coaching.

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Windham Public Schools

Grant:

Teacher Leadership at WHS

Initiative:

Build Educator Ownership, Leadership and Capacity

Date Grant Awarded:

12/22/2017

Location Served:

Willimantic, CT

Windham Public Schools
The Windham Public Schools provides all students equitable access to a high quality education and graduates students who are prepared to become productive members of society. The school district and community hold a commitment to support cultural and linguistic diversity, deep student engagement, and the pursuit of lifelong learning.

Project Description
This grant will support Windham High School in implementing a comprehensive and sustainable plan to develop, support and enhance teacher leadership. Designed to increase teacher efficacy and school-based instructional leadership to improve student achievement, this plan addresses curriculum, instructional delivery, assessment methods and school based professional learning and coaching.

EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through information technology.

Project Description
This grant will support the Massachusetts Next Gen School Incubator initiative, which will provide Massachusetts-based educators and community members the opportunity to plan and launch genuinely bold models of next gen learning designed for equity, personalized student-centered learning, and the attainment of richer, deeper, 21st-century definitions of student success.

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EDUCAUSE

Grant:

MA Incubator

Initiative:

Develop Effective Systems Designs

Date Grant Awarded:

12/22/2017

Location Served:

Washington, DC

EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through information technology.

Project Description
This grant will support the Massachusetts Next Gen School Incubator initiative, which will provide Massachusetts-based educators and community members the opportunity to plan and launch genuinely bold models of next gen learning designed for equity, personalized student-centered learning, and the attainment of richer, deeper, 21st-century definitions of student success.

Center for Collaborative Education
The Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools through research and technical assistance.

Project Description
This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education to continue building the MCIEA accountability model, including professional learning, community engagement, and advocacy efforts of the Massachusetts Consortium of Innovative Education Assessment.

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Center for Collaborative Education

Grant:

Building Accountability and Program Models of Equity-Minded Student-Centered Learning

Initiative:

Develop Effective Systems Designs

Date Grant Awarded:

12/22/2017

Location Served:

Boston, MA

Center for Collaborative Education
The Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools through research and technical assistance.

Project Description
This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education to continue building the MCIEA accountability model, including professional learning, community engagement, and advocacy efforts of the Massachusetts Consortium of Innovative Education Assessment.

United We Dream
United We Dream empowers people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and their own campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people. They do this through immigrant youth-led campaigns at the local, state, and federal level.

Project Description
This grant will support United We Dream to: 1) develop an after school program; 2) engage youth in the #AffordToDream Campaign for Tuition Equity; and 3) implement a new organizing model based on a membership structure to solidify, strengthen, and quantify their people power.

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United We Dream

Grant:

CT Students for a Dream

Initiative:

Build Public Understanding & Demand

Date Grant Awarded:

12/22/2017

Location Served:

Washington, DC

United We Dream
United We Dream empowers people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and their own campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people. They do this through immigrant youth-led campaigns at the local, state, and federal level.

Project Description
This grant will support United We Dream to: 1) develop an after school program; 2) engage youth in the #AffordToDream Campaign for Tuition Equity; and 3) implement a new organizing model based on a membership structure to solidify, strengthen, and quantify their people power.